People v. Rubino

The State appeals from the McHenry County circuit court’s orders excluding from two cases the testimony of two expert witnesses and the laboratory report the experts prepared (collectively, the evidence). In these consolidated appeals, the State argues that the trial judge abused his discretion when he denied the State’s motion to supplement discovery with the newly found evidence. The trial court excluded the evidence as a sanction under Supreme Court Rule 415(g)(i) (134 Ill. 2d R. 415(g)(i)) for the State’s inadvertent failure to comply with a discovery order. Although we do not condone the…